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Founding or early engineer at infra / dev-tools companies — small team, high product taste.

New York City or fully remote. No relocation to SF.

Seed to Series B. Wants the agency of being in the first 30.

Pitch tone: peer to peer, specific, < 90 words. No 'love your product' openers.

Interested in voice / realtime infra (Vapi-style problems), CRDTs, and editor performance.

Worked at Stripe 2021–2023 on Issuing. Owned the card-issuance pipeline at scale.

Shipped a sub-100ms collaborative diff renderer at last role.

Wrote a long HN thread on GPU text rendering last year — a few founders read it.

Don't pitch fintech companies — burned out on payments domain after Stripe.

Skip companies past Series C or with >150 engineers. Not the search.

Reach the founder or eng lead directly. Never route through generic recruiter inboxes.

Reads and replies to iMessage approvals fastest between 8–10am ET. Nudges sent then have ~3x acceptance.

Has skipped 4/4 leads with 'enterprise' in the role title. Treating as a soft constraint.

Warmer threads (founder mutuals on Twitter) reply at ~4x cold rate. Worth flagging.